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The Alliance for the Treatment of Intractable Pain

The Alliance for the Treatment of Intractable Pain (ATIP) is an advocacy and action group. We seek to promote a major redirection of US public policy concerning opioid addiction and the medical treatment of intractable pain. Our physicians and pharmacists are joined by registered nurses, healthcare writers, social media support group leaders, knowledgeable patients and family members. We are actively recruiting medical professionals, pain patients and family members for in-person lobbying of legislative staffs at local, State, and Federal level. We support such efforts with training materials, scripts and coaching, as well as outreach efforts to influence media producers and news editors to interview our members.

We are working to ensure compassionate care to those with chronic pain, intractable pain, cancer pain, and end of life pain. Recent changes in attitudes and legislation to solve the opioid epidemic are having unintended consequences. Vulnerable parts of the patient community are not routinely denied adequate (or any) pain care. We are advocating for those individuals and to ensure future patients do not have to live and die while suffering.

We are an independent organization that takes no outside funds from pharmaceutical, medical device, or addiction treatment firms.